Hints for boosting application performance

Today's workers are not tethered to the office. Some spend much time in the field; others work at home or at a branch office many miles away. This boosts convenience and morale, but with such a large distributed network, it can wreak havoc on application performance.

NewsFactor Magazine Online recently published Seven Ways to Boost Application Performance, a set of hints for enterprise developers and architects. The major lesson here is that bandwidth isn't everything.

Here, in brief, are the article's seven hints.

1. Emulate WAN (wide-area network) conditions.
2. Study the traffic on your network.
3. Put a terminal server in place.
4. Invest in WAN optimization or app acceleration technology.
5. Take a look at the apps on your server.
6. Upgrade to MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching).
7. Don't wait for information to come to you.

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